CHILDREN OF BODOM, CIRCUS MAXIMUS are the latest act confirmed for this year’s installment of the Loud Park festival, which is set to take place October 27th at Saitama Super Arena, a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Saitama City, Saitama, Japan.
Acts confirmed for Loud Park 12: CHRISTOPHER AMOTT, SEBASTIAN BACH, BUCKCHERRY, CHILDREN OF BODOM, CIRCUS MAXIMUS, CRYPTOPSY, DIR EN GREY, DRAGONFORCE, HALESTORM, HELLOWEEN, HIBRIA, IN FLAMES, NAGLFAR, OUTRAGE, SLAYER, SONATA ARCTICA, STONE SOUR and 1349.
Fan-filmed video footage of former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach performing with SIN CITY SINNERS on September 26 at Vinyl at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada can be seen below.
SIN CITY SINNERS earlier in the year announced its newest addition, actor/musician Zach Throne. Zach joins original SINNERS Todd Kerns (SLASH), Brent Muscat (FASTER PUSSYCAT) and Rob Cournoyer (RAGING SLAB).
SIN CITY SINNERS released its third album, “A Sinners’ Christmas” late last year. It was recorded, mixed and mastered at Hit Track Studios in Las Vegas and produced by Brent Muscat and Tom Parham, and executive-produced by Jason Green.
In 2010, SIN CITY SINNERS released two CDs of original music, “Exile on Fremont Street” and the all-acoustic “Broken Record”. The SINNERS‘ music video, “Goin’ To Vegas”, received the 32nd annual Telly Award and the track “Numb” was nominated for an AVN award for “Best Original Song”.
Former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach played his first show with Los Angeles-based guitarist Jeff George last night (Friday, September 28) at Casino Nova Scotia in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Fan-filmed video footage of the concert can be seen below.
George, who has previously played with ASKING ALEXANDRIA‘s lead vocalist Danny Worsnop, joined Bach‘s band as the replacement for Nick Sterling, who left the group in early August due to a contractual dispute over a live television broadcast.
Sterling played guitar, and co-wrote many of the songs, on Bach’s latest album, “Kicking & Screaming”.
Bach used several guest guitarists at some of his recent shows, including Jinxx (BLACK VEIL BRIDES) and Brent Woods (WILDSIDE, VINCE NEIL).
Asked by Italian web radio Linearock.it in a June 2012 interview what the reason is for the frequent lineup changes in his solo band, Bach said, “It’s a very easy answer. It’s all to do with finance. If you get paid a certain amount of money, you can’t pay to play… If I tell a guy in my band, ‘This is what we’re getting. We all have to split it.’ Some guys will be like, ‘Fuck that!’ And I’m like, ‘You know what?! Bye!’ [laughs] ‘Cause it’s a business. When you see me change bandmembers, it’s usually a business decision.”
Vocalist SEBASTIAN BACH, who recently parted ways with guitarist Nick Sterling, has introduced LA-based Jeff George as Sterling’s replacement.
George made his live debut with Bach on Friday, September 28th in Halifax, Nova Scotia at Casino Nova Scotia.
Bach had been scheduled to play a show in Toronto, ON, on September 30th at The Rockpile. BraveWords.com has learned that show has now been cancelled. No reason – official or otherwise – has been given. Ticket refunds will be issued.
His complete live itinerary can be viewed below:
October
13 – Rock’N’Roll Fantasy Camp – Las Vegas, NV
27 – Loudpark Festival – Saitama Shi, Japan
November
24 – B.B. King Blues Club and Grill – New York, NY
25 – Emporium – Davis Park, NY
30 – Hard Rock Hell – Wales, United Kingdom
According to WashingtonExaminer.com, former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach has slammed Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan for his supposed love of rock and roll.
Speaking at last week’s GOP convention in Tampa, Florida, Ryan said of his running mate Mitt Romney, “There are the songs on his iPod which I’ve heard on the campaign bus — and on many hotel elevators. He actually urged me to play some of these songs at campaign rallies. I said, ‘I hope it’s not a deal-breaker, Mitt, but my playlist starts with AC/DC and ends with ZEPPELIN.'”
While performing with CAMP FREDDY last night (Monday, September 3) at the Butter nightclub in Charlotte, North Carolina as part of a kick-off event for the Democratic National Convention, Bach poked fun at Ryan, telling the crowd, “That means [his playlist] stops at the letter L. I guess he doesn’t like MÖTLEY CRÜE, I guess he doesn’t like Minnie Riperton, he doesn’t even have any Melissa Manchester on his [expletive] iPod.”
Between songs, Bach blasted Ryan again. “Do you like LED ZEPPELIN more than Paul Ryan?” he said.
Other artists that have blasted the campaign include TWISTED SISTER frontman Dee Snider, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist Tom Morello, Somali-Canadian artist K’naan and SILVERSUN PICKUPS, who objected to the campaign’s use of their song “Panic Switch”.
When Ryan listed RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE as one of his favorites, despite their hardcore leftist leanings, Morello slammed the far-right Congressman in an op-ed piece for Rolling Stone.
Former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach says that he is “friends” with Jon Bon Jovi again after he didn’t speak to the BON JOVI frontman for many years following a dispute over money.
Despite the fact that the 1989 debut album from the Bach-fronted SKID ROW went five times platinum and produced several hit singes — including “18 And Life”, “I Remember You” and “Youth Gone Wild”, there was a lot of bitterness surrounding its success, largely due to the fact that in return for the helping hands of Jon Bon Jovi, SKID ROW reportedly had to enter a publishing deal with Jon‘s newly established Underground Music Company in which they waived their rights to publishing royalties. All money was paid to Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora. After a public dispute, Richie Sambora gave his share of the money back to SKID ROW.
Speaking to ArtScenics TV this past June at the Hellfest festival in Clisson, France, Bach stated about his relationship with Jon Bon Jovi (see video below), “Bon Jovi took us on our first tour and we signed some papers with him that he got a cut of, if we made it big, that he would get compensated for helping us out. Nobody expected us to get as big as we got. Nobody thought that we would become a big band. That happens all the time in the music industry. Jon was like, ‘We’ll take you on tour, but if you guys make it big,’ then he gets a cut of it. So I was bitter about that for awhile, but then I realized that we probably wouldn’t have made it as big, or maybe at all, if he didn’t take us.”
He continued, “I actually had dinner with Jon a couple of years ago. We were staying at the Mandarin Oriental in London — me and Axl [Rose, GUNS N’ ROSES singer] — and we were sitting there. And the waitress says, ‘Hey, guess who’s over in the corner.’ And me and Axl go, ‘Who?’ She said, ‘Jon Bon Jovi.’ And I go, ‘Get the fuck out of here.’ He was in the corner. And I didn’t know what to do. ‘Cause we had had words… Most of them were mine. [laughs] So I go, ‘You know what?! Fuck this. I’m gonna go over there and say ‘Hi’ to him.’ ‘Cause we used to be great, great friends; I had Christmas dinner at his house and stuff. So I stood up and walked over towards Jon, and Jon was looking at me, going, ‘Are you gonna be a dick or are you gonna be nice?’ He’s looking at me, like, ‘What are you gonna do? What are you gonna say?’ And I was like, ‘Hey, man, how is it going?’ And he was, like, ‘Hey, man?’ And we stood up and we hugged and then he came over to me and Axl‘s table and we drank about 15 bottles of red wine, had a great time. He gave me his phone number and I’ve texted him a couple of times. He’s a good guy. We’re friends again.”
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